[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3140]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WE MUST CONFRONT EVIL IN THE WORLD

  (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, there are times in history we are ashamed 
of, times when people were faced with great evil and the world looked 
away.
  Cambodia's Communist regime massacred its people. Many in the world 
made excuses for them. Stalin purged Russians and starved the nation of 
Ukraine. He was praised by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
  The Jewish people of Europe were systematically murdered by Hitler, 
but the world was too afraid to see the truth. The scales were only 
lifted from their eyes when millions were already dead. At the time, 
people made excuses for their decision to look away. They said the 
politics were too dicey, or it wouldn't be diplomatic, or sometimes 
they couldn't believe that such evil exists.
  When we look back, those excuses don't make sense. They don't matter. 
What matters is that people were dying and the world didn't notice. 
Evil does exist, but ignoring it or refusing to call it by its name 
does not make it go away.
  ISIL is murdering Christians. They are targeting people who share my 
faith, the faith of many people in this House, people who believe in 
Jesus Christ. Because of that belief, they are being marked for 
execution. ISIL is murdering and enslaving religious and ethnic 
minorities everywhere they gain power, and we know it.
  We know what they are doing, and if we don't say it, we should be 
ashamed. ISIL is committing genocide. They are targeting non-Muslims, 
Christians, Yazidis, and more, and pushing them to extinction.
  But we also can't ignore what else is happening in Syria. The Assad 
regime and its allies are indiscriminately killing on a breathtaking 
scale. Torture, rape, chemical weapons, barrel bombs, forced 
starvation--the Syrian regime is targeting civilians and millions are 
suffering.
  The world cannot look away. The Obama administration cannot dance 
around the question. Today the House stands firmly to proclaim to the 
world that genocide is happening, that evil is real, and that it must 
be stopped. We urge the administration to join us.
  We must look evil in the face and confront it, because if we do not 
wake up, more innocent blood will be shed.

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